Scripture: 2
Chronicles 5:13c
and
when they praised the LORD saying,"He indeed is good for His
lovingkindness is everlasting," then the house, the house of the LORD, was
filled with a cloud,
Insights: When we are serving the Lord, it ought to be
a form of worship. In modern society we
often isolate our worship to the Sunday morning celebration time we call the
worship service. The reality is we ought
to be worshipping the Lord in everything we do.
In other words, when we are working it ought to be done as unto the
Lord. If we work with this kind of
attitude, our work is a form of worship.
When we teach it also ought to be a form of worship. When we listen to another individual and we
exhibit our spiritual gift of mercy or exhortation, then it can also be
worship. The problem is most of us have
gotten lost in the busyness of life to such a degree that we do not take time
to acknowledge our worship to the Lord.
These individuals involved in dedicating the Temple were very much aware
of what was taking place and they worshipped the Lord. It was a natural outflow of their service to
Him. In fact it was as much of a natural
outflow as their service was the natural outflow of their purification process. Beloved, let me encourage you to rethink your
worship. We are told in Romans 12:1 to
present our bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which
is our spiritual service of worship.
Notice how Paul also links purification (sacrifice) with service
(spiritual service) and how he then links service (spiritual service) with
worship. Here is the beautiful part of
our individual worship: If each of us came to the Lord in our private lives
like Romans commands, then we are able to enter into corporate worship
unhindered. Can you imagine what a
worship service would look and sound like if all of us entered into the service
with this kind of heart devotion to the Lord?
It would be breath taking.
Beloved, be aware of your worship this day and think on the Lord!
Questions:
- Do
you give your all in worship?
- If
you are holding back in your worship to the Lord, why?
Prayer: Father, forgive
me when I don’t give you my all in worship.
May every act and service I perform be done from a worshipful heart. May it bring You great glory as I give my all
to You. Amen.
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